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<h2>Think, Drink, and Eat with Chopsticks</h2>
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        <b>The Dining Philosophers is a nonprofit organization</b>
        with the goal of providing an online and offline
        venue for software professionals to educate and network with each other on a social and professional basis.
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        <h2>Local Chapters</h2>
        ${Clique.findByName('Dining Philosophers')}
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        <b>We organize monthly tech talks</b>
        on the latest software development technologies. Talks are followed by networking event at a local
        restaurant or bar.
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            <a href="events/">next event</a>
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        <b>The name of our group is borrowed</b>
        from a classic computer science paper written by

        Edsger Dijkstra.

        In the paper he describes a thought experiment called the Dining Philosophers. There are 5 philosophers
        sitting on a circular table thinking and eating noodles with chopsticks. Read about

        <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Eeliens/sim/sim_html/node7.html">the experiment</a>

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